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Cellosaurus Tu 159 (CVCL_4911)

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Cell line name Tu 159
Synonyms TU 159; Tu-159; Tu159; TU159
Accession CVCL_4911
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: Tu 159 (RRID:CVCL_4911)
Comments Problematic cell line: Contaminated. T404, T406, Tu 138, Tu 158LN, Tu 159, Tu 182, Tu 212 and Tu 212LN have been shown to be identical (PubMed=21868764).
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00430.
Disease Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (NCIt: C34447)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Originate from same individual CVCL_1T20 ! T404
CVCL_1T19 ! T406 [Human HNSCC]
CVCL_4910 ! Tu 138
CVCL_1T17 ! Tu 158LN
CVCL_4914 ! Tu 182
CVCL_4915 ! Tu 212
CVCL_1T18 ! Tu 212LN
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): PubMed=21868764

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO12,13
D5S81812
D7S82010
D13S31712
D16S5398,9
TH018
TPOX10,11
vWA15,16

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Web pages Info; ICLAC; -; https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v13_distribution.xlsx
Publications

PubMed=21868764; DOI=10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-11-0690; PMCID=PMC3229662
Mei Zhao, Daisuke Sano, Curtis R. Pickering, Samar A. Jasser, Ying C. Henderson, Gary L. Clayman, Erich M. Sturgis, Thomas J. Ow, Reuben Lotan, Thomas E. Carey, Peter G. Sacks ...Show all 15 authors... , Jennifer Rubin Grandis, David Sidransky, Nils-Erik Heldin, Jeffrey N. Myers; Show fewer authors
Assembly and initial characterization of a panel of 85 genomically validated cell lines from diverse head and neck tumor sites.
Clin. Cancer Res. 17:7248-7264(2011)

Cross-references
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03151958
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54973310
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number14